Editorial Reviews
Review
Skipping Stones, January 2004 : “Provides practical classroom activities and strategies for addressing the needs of gifted students.”
Dr. L. F. Lowenstein,PhD, Educational, Clinical and Forensic Psychological Consultant : "(The author) has investigated the most recent work in neuroscience, learning and intelligence, and seeks to answer many questions frequently posed by both teachers and parents. . . . This book is a must read forthose teaching able children, and of course, parents with children who appear to show diftedness or a high level of talent."
Summer 2004 Roeper Review : "Sousa's discussion of the strategies for teaching or working with gifted students incorporates the best practices in the field."
Book Description
Now from the author of the best-selling How the Brain Learns and How the Special Needs Brain Learns comes a new book dealing with gifted and talented students. How the Gifted Brain Learns helps you turn research on the brain function of intellectually and artistically advanced students into practical classroom activities and strategies.
David Sousa shows how the brain processes information and offers both simple and complex strategies that will help identify and challenge gifted students in your classroom. Building on the latest discoveries in neuroscience, learning, and the nature of intelligence, this book examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.
This book will help answer such questions as:
Schools have a responsibility to provide for the needs of gifted and talented students—to challenge them so that they may reach their fullest potentials. Offering real strategies for real classrooms, How the Gifted Brain Learns is an indispensable tool for all educators—school administrators, teachers, staff developers, preservice students, and even parents who want to better understand their gifted children, and help them reach exceptional levels of performance.
About the Author: David A. Sousa, Ed.D., an international educational consultant, has conducted workshops in hundreds of school districts on brain research and science education at the elementary, secondary, and university levels. He frequently presents at national conventions of educational organizations and serves as a consultant to regional and local school districts across the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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How the Gifted Brain Learns
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